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Nexus
Project
Overview
It is widely acknowledged by the nonprofit community that the most effective and lasting work in our
sector is often done collaboratively. It is also widely acknowledged that while most nonprofits aspire
to collaborative partnerships, this type of work is actually notoriously difficult to achieve. One
significant obstacle to collaborative work is the practical lack of access to a framework from which to
create and sustain collaborative communications throughout the life-cycle of a cross-organizational
partnership.
There is no shortage of collaborative tools and solutions in the marketplace at large. However, there
are formidable obstacles to unified adoption by organizationally unconnected nonprofits, including
cost, security, community delineation, and central administration.
Nexus provides a solution.
Features
To qualified partners, Nexus provides web based collaboration tools including directory services,
mapping, discussion forums, calendering, workgroups, real-time chat, private messaging, and
collaboration tracking. Charitable communities will be able to delineate themselves within a private
and secure collaborative environment. Importantly, Nexus will remove technical administration
worries and be available at a cost that is within reach even for a grassroots budget.
How Can We Pull This Off?
Northbridge Technology Alliance is a 501(c)(3) tax exempt nonprofit based in the Chicago region. We
operate this project as a self-sustaining program. Our talented leadership team is able to engage
enthusiastic technical volunteer coders and also a meaningful level of end user community support.
The result is a top notch collaboration framework that we make available to our constituents at a
small fraction of comparable profit-sector tools.
Nexus is a shared technology solution custom designed by social leaders to solve social problems.
This is the hallmark of a Northbridge outcome.
Timeline
Nexus is in pilot with influential Midwest collaboratives through early 2015. After vetting and refining
our feature set on an impactful but controlled scale, we will advance Nexus to a regional and
national scale for use by our social justice and community-building partners.
For More Information
If your non profit organization would like more information about the Nexus project, please contact
Northbridge Technology Alliance by email or telephone.
http://northbridgetech.org
contact@northbridgetech.org
866.848.9224
Northbridge Technology Alliance is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit.
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